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Monday, July 17, 2017

After months of hard work, collecting resources, and trial and error we are happy to finally announce that our new photography studio is in full swing! Taking advantage of space near our offices, which offered a little more room and controllable light, we slowly began to piece together a studio equipped for our growing digitization needs.

Camera set-up for oversize newspaper digitization

A student employee labeling slides before digitization

With a range of different set-ups and accessories including macro lenses, softbox lights, anti-reflective
glass, and a rail mount we are now able to digitize just about
anything! In the past few months, during which we have been working to streamline our photography process, we have already digitized an oversized newspaper collection, a set of almost 200 artist books, and over 6,000 slides from AGSL's Harrison Forman and Eugene Harris Collections. Utilizing our 50 megapixel camera, a camera-to-computer
tethering system, and real time live view controls we are now able to
digitize collections with better quality and speed than ever before. The number of possibilities this studio can offer have just begun to be explored.